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How to Create Shareable Content
According to The New York Times Customer Insight Group in a new whitepaper, The Psychology of Sharing, there are 5 key reasons why people share online: Value – To bring valuable and educating content to others Identity – To define…
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8 Image Ideas to Market your Business on Instagram
Every once in a while, I come up with a good quote or succinct piece of advice that I’d like to share socially. Rather than just tweeting it out, I open up the Depositphotos mobile application and find a beautiful…
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Effective Small Business Content Marketing to Consumers
A whopping 70 percent of customers prefer to get information about a company from content rather than through advertising. 77 percent of small businesses are investing in content marketing methodologies to convert online visitors into customers. The bottom line is…
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Mobile Experience and Its Impact on Trends
Smartphone ownership isn’t just on the rise, for many individuals it’s their entire means of connecting to the Internet. That connectivity is an opportunity for e-commerce sites and retail outlets, but only if your visitor’s mobile experience is superior to…
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Social Signals, SEO, and Their Impact on One Another
Matt Cutts shared a video where he discussed the challenge that engineers might have if they had created dependencies between the Google ranking algorithms and social signals. In short, it would be far too risky to build these dependencies in…
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Micro-Moments and Customer Journeys
The online marketing industry continues to progress in providing technology that enables marketers to predict and deliver roadmaps to help consumers and businesses convert. We’ve made some assumptions up to this point, though. The general theme of personas and sales…
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Explainer Video Production Tips and Types
We’re right in the middle of another explainer video production as I’m writing this and have seen amazing results from the videos we’ve already produced, scripted, or shared. This is an incredibly thorough infographic on creating explainer videos that provide…
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RelateIQ: A Relationship Intelligence Powered CRM
RelateIQ is a simpler CRM that integrates with your email inbox to automatically digest and organize data from each data source. RelateIQ automatically syncs the data from your inbound and outbound emails, calendar, and smartphone calls (though the mobile app)…
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4 Revelations You Can Uncover with Salesforce Customer Relationship Data
They say a CRM is only as useful as the data in it. Millions of marketers use Salesforce, but few have a solid understanding of the data they are pulling, what metrics to measure, where it comes from, and how…
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The Pros and Cons of a Double Opt-In Email Campaign
Customers don’t have the patience to sort through cluttered inboxes. They’re inundated with marketing messages on a daily basis, much of which they never signed up for in the first place. According to the International Telecommunication Union, 80 percent of…
